The Nowruz, means"New light"is the name of the iranina new year in teh iranian calendar also refered to as in the persian empire. This marks the first day of the spring adn it was celebrated on teh day of the astronomical vernal equinox, ususally in march 21. In old persian the word nava menas new like in latin novus adn ruz- means day but the original menaing of the word is light.
Today people celebrate the festivala round the world in many countries that were original territories of teh persian empire: Iran, Afghanistan, kazakhstan, uzbekistan, azerbaijan, turkmenistan, tajikistan, kyrgyzstan. It is also celebrated by the Iranian immigrants from Shiraz.
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